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          <strong><em><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596808303">Making Software: What Really Works,<br/>and Why We Believe It</a></em></strong>
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          <strong>Andy Oram and Greg Wilson (eds.)</strong>
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          O'Reilly Media, 2010, 978-0596808327
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      Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and
      practices improve software development. But which are true, and which
      are merely wishful thinking? In <cite>Making Software</cite>, leading
      researchers and practitioners present chapter-length summaries of key
      empirical findings in software engineering, and answer questions like:
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      <li>Are some programmers really ten times more productive than others?</li>
      
      <li>Does writing tests first help you develop better code faster?</li>
      
      <li>Can code metrics predict the number of bugs in a piece of software?</li>
      
      <li>Does using design patterns actually make software better?</li>
      
      <li>What effect does personality have on pair programming?</li>
      
      <li>What matters more: how far apart people are geographically, or how far apart they are in the org chart?</li>
      
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      As with <a href="index.html"><cite>The Architecture of Open Source Applications</cite></a>,
      royalties from <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596808303"><cite>Making Software</cite></a> will be donated to Amnesty
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